Portrait of Margaret Malcolm
Maker
(artist)
1756-1823
1756-1823
Title
Portrait of Margaret Malcolm
Date of Production
around 1795-1803
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
Height: 75.9 cm (canvas)
Width: 63.5 cm (canvas)
Width: 63.5 cm (canvas)
Accession Number
P.1947.LF.334
Mode of Acquisition
Arthur Hamilton Lee, bequest, 1947
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
Margaret Pasley (or Paisley) was born in 1742. Aged nineteen, she married George Malcolm, a portrait of whom is also in The Courtauld Gallery collection. They had seventeen children: of their ten sons, four became knights, including Admiral Sir Pultney who was Napoleon's warden during his exile on St Helena. Margaret is depicted wearing a dormeuse or French night cap, a type of bonnet that was especially fashionable in the 1770s.
Provenance
Lee Bequest 1947
Exhibition History
The Gilbert, Courtauld and Wernher Collections, London & England, 07/01/1998-03/02/1998
Chequers, England, 1983-85
Chequers, England, 1983-85
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